TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the social health of community-dwelling older people living with dementia through a reablement program
AU - Jeon, Yun Hee
AU - Clemson, Lindy
AU - Naismith, Sharon L.
AU - Mowszowski, Loren
AU - McDonagh, Niki
AU - MacKenzie, Margaret
AU - Dawes, Caitlin
AU - Krein, Luisa
AU - Szanton, Sarah L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2017.
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - Psychological, neurological, and social impairments caused by dementia may limit the person's everyday living and experiences, but their capacity to enjoy a meaningful life is still retained. Increasingly, evidence has been shown the importance of reablement approaches to care in maximizing the older person's independence, health, and well-being through increased engagement in their daily, physical, social, and community activities. However, there is a major knowledge gap in providing reablement for people living with dementia. We describe one case of a client with moderate dementia and her daughter carer who participated as a dyad in a person centered, interdisciplinary, and reablement program called I-HARP (Interdisciplinary home-based reablement program). I-HARP is designed to improve functional capacity of those community dwelling, older people living with dementia, and other health conditions. In this paper, we discussed key contributions that such a reablement approach to care can make to optimizing the social health of people living with dementia.
AB - Psychological, neurological, and social impairments caused by dementia may limit the person's everyday living and experiences, but their capacity to enjoy a meaningful life is still retained. Increasingly, evidence has been shown the importance of reablement approaches to care in maximizing the older person's independence, health, and well-being through increased engagement in their daily, physical, social, and community activities. However, there is a major knowledge gap in providing reablement for people living with dementia. We describe one case of a client with moderate dementia and her daughter carer who participated as a dyad in a person centered, interdisciplinary, and reablement program called I-HARP (Interdisciplinary home-based reablement program). I-HARP is designed to improve functional capacity of those community dwelling, older people living with dementia, and other health conditions. In this paper, we discussed key contributions that such a reablement approach to care can make to optimizing the social health of people living with dementia.
KW - community care
KW - dementia
KW - interdisciplinary teamwork
KW - person-centered care
KW - reablement
KW - shared decision making
KW - social health
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U2 - 10.1017/S1041610217001533
DO - 10.1017/S1041610217001533
M3 - Article
C2 - 28805186
AN - SCOPUS:85049668736
SN - 1041-6102
VL - 30
SP - 915
EP - 920
JO - International psychogeriatrics
JF - International psychogeriatrics
IS - 6
ER -